let me ask the other question. the intermediate question, which is what michael said there on tape. if there was a nondisclosure agreement, the obvious purpose is that she will not talk about what she and she did together. now, according to the argument michael made, however, it s two ways. a nondisclosure agreement binds both parties to silence. so therefore, it could not have been made without telling one of the parties the president in this case, that he was supposed to keep quiet about it. yes. so if trump himself is not a party to the contract and if trump himself had no knowledge about the payment, which was the consideration given to stormy daniels to buy her silence, then why in the world is trump joining in a motion to compel arbitration, why is trump joining in a federal lawsuit if trump had nothing underlying contract.
secretive and political. there s a real problem if we allow our public officials to determine which communications from them that we get to see. michael s point, the key point that michael made was that the clinton people state, and obama administration will come back and say she sent them to public accounts and caught up in the drag mail. no that s their statement. we need to know if they sent them to private people diplomats. we need to see the e-mail. let s take it out of the clinton narrative and let s not go there and pile on. if samantha power it was discovered this or john kerry, we would say that s not how you operate. in 2015 it s a terrible breach of public trust. it s a terrible breach of and lack of transparency and it does feed into a narrative. and richard haass, the fact again, that very clear you wonder how this happened where she knew. and the obama administration
manufacturing, but it is to a degree service-based and consumer-based. right. i mean, 70% of our g. double play gdp is consumer spending. in europe it s 55%. so we do engage in considerable spending which drives the economy forward. and we know minimum wage workers have faced a tough wage front for a long time. the minimum wage is a very direct way to help them in that regard. and sure, some of it feeds back into the economy in terms of higher spending. and by the way, some of it also off sets this inequality problem that the president has elevated. so in many ways the a very big plus. at to that the politics i thought michael well articulated and you have a pretty important
workers. i think it makes sense in politics and economics and that intersection isn t always available. michael, in terms of the base. you re hearing well this could put us out off business because it is going to drive up the wages and suppress profit asks we won t be able to continue to employ folks. but if you go to a lot of people, that sounds oh that is not a bad idea. it is fairly low. it does necessarily cover the cost of things that i need. do you see a time where republicans seem mo move a little bit maybe not 10.10 but let s meet somewhere in the middle. i think it does have potential for steam down the road. but i think it has potential now. and this is an issue i don t think republicans should run away. i grew up in a minimum wage household, so i know first happened how you live within those con fiemts. but the reality is how we should
their policy unchanged. so we see this debate really up in the last few months. even if congress does not touch the 10.10, which they will not. and you see moves towards that. have the seeds been planted for the minimum wage to be a large issue heading into 2016. is this something democrats will play up for a while and try to spark substantive change? i have to believe that is the case. and polls are very strong. and not just among democrats, by the way. above 50%. and i thought michael made a very good point lately. the president has said i m sort of riffing off a point, michael made. the president has said there are things i can t get through congress. so then talks about executive orders and rule changes. that tends to be small bore. but when you get to states raising minimum wages you re helping a lot of low wage